| PARAGUAYAN | S American rang up AA a year after crashing |
| ADELAIDE | American rang up American, backing European 6 (and 1) |
| CABBAGE | Dullard mixed up AA and BBC, say, in reverse order |
| AGRARIAN | Rural American rang Air Marshal (8) |
| GARFUNKEL | Simon's partner in a musical duo which broke up less than a year after its bestselling album |
| SPEECHDAY | A year after church brought in to expedite a celebration at a school |
| TUESDAY | A year after duets are composed for a specific time (7) |
| DECAY | A month and a year after? Rot! (5) |
| GROUPCAPTAIN | A cop struggling with it rang up flying squad officer |
| GRAN | Rang up one's grandmother informally! |
| RUMBA | Originally rang up many bands at a lively dance |
| WAGNER | We rang up a German composer |
| ANGRY | Rang up on the 4th of July in a temper (5) |
| HENRYFONDA | He won a Best Actor Oscar for On Golden Pond a year after he'd been awarded one for Lifetime Achieve |
| SWEPTAWAY | Thai temple pews turned up a year after having been taken by storm surge (5,4) |
| DIANE | American photographer who was the first to be included in the Venice Biennale, a year after her death (5,5) |
| ARBUS | American photographer who was the first to be included in the Venice Biennale, a year after her death (5,5) |
| RHYL | A year after my first husband left, I moved to a town in Wales (4) |
| WOGAN | Whose statue was unveiled on Harvey's Quay in Limerick in 2017, a year after his death? (5) |
| FLOW | Nearly a year after the end of WWI, German skeleton crews left aboard 70 interned German naval craft managed to scuttle and sink all but a few to the bottom of Scapa ... |
